Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1168645b9cc21202…

MALICIOUS

PDF

39.5 KB Created: 2020-08-10 20:04:45 +03:00 Authoring application: wkhtmltopdf 0.12.5 (via Qt 4.8.7) First seen: 2026-05-07
MD5: 108b9b347a1d5800481cb6843f32e1f2 SHA-1: aeb2f96589bc527b93d26dd8935313b51f79f692 SHA-256: 1168645b9cc212021b2c4e6fa6e74f81e0a5da36f4b2203084d74ea50418c7af
194 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF contains a link farm designed to redirect users to malicious infrastructure, specifically identified by the URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=intentional+fallacy+text+pdf. This technique is often used in phishing campaigns to obscure the final malicious destination. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • PDF links to known malicious redirector infrastructure critical PDF_MALICIOUS_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF contains a clickable URI to redirector infrastructure used by a known malicious PDF SEO/adware delivery campaign. These documents typically rely on user interaction and redirect chains rather than a PDF parser vulnerability.
  • Small PDF contains mass external PDF link farm critical PDF_SEO_LINK_FARM
    Small PDF contains many clickable external PDF links, mostly clustered on one host. This matches generated SEO/link-farm PDF carriers used to route users into malicious or unwanted-software delivery chains, rather than a normal document citation pattern.
  • Image lure linking to an SEO redirector (free-download phishing) high PDF_SEO_UTM_REDIRECTOR_LINK
    PDF embeds an image with little or no body text and a clickable link to a multi-word utm_term / FeedBurner-proxied SEO redirector — the 'free ebook / solution-manual / document download' phishing family that ranks for natural-language search queries and routes the user into a payload/redirect chain. The PDF carries no exploit; the risk is the linked destination. Flagged structurally (image lure + SEO redirector) so it does not depend on a ClamAV/ML signature, and regardless of how many filler text pages the lure carries.
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL https://ttraff.cc/pify?keyword=intentional+fallacy+text+pdf In PDF document text
    • http://files.monkeymadnessfunbus.co.uk/uploads/1/3/0/8/130874298/4597045.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.punksurfboards.com/uploads/1/3/2/7/132741081/dujalarob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://files.gbyws.org/uploads/1/3/1/4/131483019/paludizixi-pazibokadelok-xovubonavegazuz-nobuxudisapefod.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/In PDF document text
    • http://www.ascendercorp.com/typedesigners.htmlIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0432/3039/6574/files/bisijafur.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/9474/6023/files/muwefupebedepojidu.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/5664/4774/files/gidofuro.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/0687/7080/files/65496272691.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/6808/7717/files/25113926654.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0427/6623/7852/files/lujinozuv.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0428/9835/8432/files/41718344304.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/3030/6203/files/fifakopiwajurav.pdfIn PDF document text
    • https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0433/8103/1064/files/wavigixorojumuvedavob.pdfIn PDF document text
    • http://www.w3.org/1999/02/22-rdf-syntax-ns#In PDF document text
    • http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/pdf/1.3/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/mm/In PDF document text
    • http://ns.adobe.com/xap/1.0/rights/In PDF document text
    • http://scripts.sil.org/OFLIn PDF document text

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
font_00_sfnt_off00005e22.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x5E22 4984 bytes
SHA-256: ea358e9351376b901e7f05fbd1bb90e5e2770138e19c061039b4b84e999726b6
font_01_sfnt_off00006f36.bin pdf-font-stream PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0x6F36 10036 bytes
SHA-256: 5aafa6a105873c47a2ce26cdb19b042b763051264d84ea563ab8123e6b140724